Psalms 80:1 ←
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
Psalms 80:2 ←
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
Psalms 80:3 ←
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:4 ←
Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Psalms 80:5 ←
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 80:6 ←
You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80:7 ←
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:8 ←
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
Psalms 80:9 ←
You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
Psalms 80:10 ←
The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
Psalms 80:11 ←
It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
Psalms 80:12 ←
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Psalms 80:13 ←
The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
Psalms 80:14 ←
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
Psalms 80:15 ←
the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 80:16 ←
It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
Psalms 80:17 ←
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 80:18 ←
So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
Psalms 80:19 ←
Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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